Reply To: A few books I've read recently

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I have both “Ordinary Men” and “Why the Allies Won”, and they are both within 18” of where I’m currently sitting.  I tend not to read such books from start to finish, but rather I dip in and out as either the feeling takes me or when I want to research some particular ‘thing’.

On the same bookshelf is a book that, to fit alongside Overy’s one, should perhaps have been subtitled “Why the Germans Lost”.  This is “The Wages of Destruction” by Adam Tooze.  It’s a monumental piece of research on the Nazi economy, and I frequently reach for it when a piece of utter drivel on another wargaming website needs to be corrected.

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